2016 Cascade Mall shooting

2016 Cascade Mall shooting
2016 Cascade Mall shooting (Washington (state))
2016 Cascade Mall shooting (the US)
Location Cascade Mall, Burlington, Washington, U.S.
Coordinates 48°27′44″N 122°20′16″W / 48.462213°N 122.337782°W / 48.462213; -122.337782Coordinates: 48°27′44″N 122°20′16″W / 48.462213°N 122.337782°W / 48.462213; -122.337782
Date September 23, 2016
6:58 p.m. (PDT)
Attack type
 Mass shooting, mass murder
Weapons Ruger 10/22 rifle [1]
Deaths 5[2]
Perpetrator Arcan Cetin[3]

On September 23, 2016, five people were killed in a mass shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, U.S. The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who immigrated from Turkey as a child with his family.[4] He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown.[5][6] He confessed to committing the shooting on September 26.[7]

Killings

On September 23, 2016, Cetin bought tickets evening showing of the movie Snowden at the Cascade Mall. He propped open the theater's exit door with his cell phone and left the theater, an action reminiscent of how the 2012 Aurora shooting was carried out. However, a moviegoer found the phone and turned it into a theater kiosk, where Cetin subsequently retrieved it.[8] Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on September 23, 2016, Arcan Cetin walked into the Macy's store at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, with a stolen rifle and opened fire,[9][10] killing four women and one man.[6] The male victim died the next day at a Seattle hospital.[11]

Video footage of the shooting, released on October 28, showed the gunman randomly targeting his victims. He first killed a woman near some clothing racks, then approached a cosmetics counter, where he killed one man and three women. All of the victims were shot at close range, and other people present in the store were able to escape unharmed because of their distance from the shooter. Afterwards, the gunman abandoned his weapon and fled the scene in a blue four-door vehicle.[12]

The FBI and ATF are providing assistance to the Burlington police and Washington state police in investigating the shooting.[13]

Victims

Five people were killed during the Cascade Mall shooting. They were Sarai Lara (16), a sophomore at Mount Vernon High School and cancer survivor;[14] Chuck Eagan (61), a Boeing maintenance worker from Lake Stevens;[15] Belinda Galde (64), a probation officer with the Snohomish County District Court;[16] Beatrice Dotson (95), Galde's mother;[17] Shayla Martin (52), a make-up artist at Macy's.[18][19]

Perpetrator

CCTV stills of the shooter

Arcan Cetin[3] (pronounced [ar'dʒan tʃe'tin], born August 20, 1996), the sole suspect, was born in Adana, Turkey.[20] He immigrated to the United States as a child after his mother married a U.S. citizen. Authorities initially identified him as a "permanent resident" until further investigation found that he was a naturalized American citizen.[21] He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015[22] and worked as a bagger at the Commissary in Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.[23][24]

Cetin was arrested without incident on the evening of September 24 while he was walking on Oak Harbor Road at Northeast Seventh Avenue in Oak Harbor, Washington.[22] Two days later, he confessed to the shooting.[25]

Online records show that Cetin had prior arrests; he was a defendant in seven cases in Island County District Court from 2013 to 2015 and was arrested in July 2015 on charges of assault in the fourth degree.[22] Cetin was ordered to undergo mental health counseling which he completed in March 2016. The court also imposed an order for him not to take drugs or drink alcohol. As of August 25, 2016, no breach of the court order against Cetin had been identified.[26]

Possible motive

Police have not yet officially released a motive for the shooting. Before Cetin's arrest, authorities stated they had no reason to believe the incident was related to terrorism.[27][28][29] Cetin told authorities that he was interested in the activities of ISIS, but when asked if the terrorist group had inspired his actions he replied, "I can't answer that."[8]

On September 25, 2016, it was reported that Cetin may have been motivated by the break-up of a relationship with a worker from the Macy's store he targeted, but the ex-girlfriend had not worked there in months and currently lives in another county.[4] Cetin was described by authorities as having called out women's names as he allegedly killed them during the shooting.[30] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Would the Cascade Mall gun fall under proposed weapons ban?".
  2. ↑ Mele, Christopher (September 23, 2016). "4 Dead in Shooting at Mall in Washington State, Police Say". The New York Times. nytimes.com. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Man suspected of killing 5 people at Burlington mall arrested in Oak Harbor". KOMO. September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Solis, Steph (September 25, 2016). "What we know about Arcan Cetin, Washington state mall shooting suspect". USA Today. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Sgt. Mark Francis [@wspd7pio] (September 24, 2016). "Sadly the male and 5th victim who was taken to Harborview has passed away #CascadeMallShooting" (Twitter post). Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Karimi, Faith; Pavlak, Shanna; Sutton, Joe (September 24, 2016). "Washington mall shooting: Manhunt underway after gunman kills 5". CNN. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ Allard, Jody; Lyke, M.L.; Wang, Amy B. (September 26, 2016). "Washington mall shooting suspect confesses to killings". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 Bellisle, Martha (November 18, 2016). "Suspect in Washington mall shooting began at theater". New Jersey Herald. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Tips from public lead to arrest of Burlington mall shooting suspect". KING-TV. September 25, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  10. ↑ Solis, Steph; Hughes, Trevor (September 25, 2016). "Washington mall shooting suspect to face 5 murder charges". USA Today. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ Dicasimirro, Gemma; Jamieson, Alastair; Sederholm, Jillian; Chuck, Elizabeth (September 24, 2016). "Macy's Shooting: Police Plead for Help IDing Gunman After 5 Killed at Washington Mall". NBC News. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  12. ↑ McNerthney, Casey (October 28, 2016). "Cascade Mall shooting video released in Arcan Cetin case". KIRO. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Fifth victim dies in Cascade Mall shooting in Burlington; suspect remains at large". KCPQ. September 23, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  14. ↑ Lee, Jessica; Maker, Mike (September 24, 2016). "16-year-old cancer survivor among the dead; victims' families grieve". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016. Lara, a Mount Vernon High School sophomore, was one of five people killed when a gunman opened fire in the Burlington department store.
  15. ↑ Hammett, Yvette C.; Connolly, Amy R. (September 25, 2016). "Suspected gunman charged with 1st-degree murder in Washington state mall shooting". UPI. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Chuck Eagan, a longtime Boeing maintenance worker from Lake Stevens, was also a victim, according to his aunt, Carol Thrush. She said Eagan and his wife had gone out to dinner and to the mall to shop and had made their way to Macy's when the shooter began his rampage.
  16. ↑ The Associated Press (September 25, 2016). "The Latest: Mall shooting victim was probation officer". Fox News. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016. The Snohomish County District Court in a statement identified Belinda Galde as an employee with the court since 1989.
  17. ↑ "Cascade Mall shooting victims: Remembering the 5 people killed". KIRO-TV. September 25, 2016. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Beatrice was 95 years old.
  18. ↑ "Suspected gunman arrested in US mall shooting that killed five". Daily Mail. Agence France-Presse. September 25, 2016. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Relatives named another victim as 52-year-old Shayla Martin, who worked as a Macy's makeup artist
  19. ↑ "The victims in the Cascade Mall shooting". KCPQ. September 25, 2016. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Arcan Cetin's Washington Voter Registration". VoterRecords. September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  21. ↑ Brand, Natalie (September 29, 2016). "Cascade Mall suspect is U.S. citizen". KING-TV. Retrieved September 30, 2016.
  22. 1 2 3 Stensland, Jesse (September 24, 2016). "Mall shooting suspect arrested in Oak Harbor". Whidbey News-Times. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  23. ↑ Wang, Amy B.; Rein, Lisa; Hauslohner, Abigail (September 25, 2016). "Authorities seeking motive in Washington state mall shooting that killed five". Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. In posts on his Facebook page, Cetin described himself as working as a bagger at Whidbey Island Commissary
  24. ↑ "Suspect in Cascade Mall shooting expected to make first court appearance". KIRO-TV. September 26, 2016. Archived from the original on September 26, 2016. Retrieved September 26, 2016. Acquaintances say Cetin had been working at the commissary at Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island.
  25. ↑ Hersher, Rebecca (September 26, 2016). "Accused Washington State Mall Gunman Reportedly Confesses To Killing 5 People". NPR.org. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Suspect in custody after mall shooting in Burlington, Wash.". KIRO 7. September 25, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  27. ↑ "Washington state attack: Burlington mall fatalities rise to five". BBC News. September 24, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  28. ↑ Winsor, Morgan; Caplan, David (September 24, 2016). "Manhunt Continues for Gunman in Seattle-Area Mall Shooting That Killed 5". ABC News. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  29. ↑ "City 'changed forever' as authorities hunt mall gunman". Yahoo! News. Associated Pressdate=September 24, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  30. ↑ Anderson, Rick (September 25, 2016). "A portrait of violence emerges of suspect in the Washington state mall killings". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
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